WTF Daylight Savings Time?

This is perhaps the lamest post topic in the history of nik's notes, but damn it I'm bothered and I need to vent.

Ever since we changed to daylight savings time a week or two ago, I'm always damn tired. I'm blaming daylight savings time because I'm staying up later and I need to sleep later - when my time was "fall back" everything was going ok. The alarm would go off, I would groan, but after several snoozes I would accept that it was time to get up and be on with my day.

It's not really going that way recently. I stayed up until 3am Saturday night for no reason other than I wasn't ready to go to sleep. Then I slept until almost 11. Every morning last week the alarm went off and I almost physically couldn't reach my hand over to bang it. After a couple of snoozes - same thing. I was deep, deep in sleep - not just the "aw, damn, time to get up" feeling - literal unable to get out of bed lethargy. But at bedtime, I'm wide awake, ready to go.

Is this time change? Part of me wants to blame it b/c there is nothing else to blame. Then the rational part of me says that if I were to travel over the line to like, Alabama, this wouldn't happen. I mean shit, I adjusted to UK time, which is 5 hours (sometimes 6, thank you daylight savings non-uniform switching) different, in less than a week. But I'm at a loss as to what else it could be. Allergies maybe? Depression? Mono? None of those really fly - allergies just make me stuffy, I'm feeling decidedly less depressed than like a month ago when getting out of bed wasn't an issue, and I refuse to admit mono is a legitimate possibility.

So here's what I want to know: is anyone else going through this? Could this really be me getting old and unable to adjust to daylight savings like I used to?

And also, why is daylight savings now? Seems like in the spring and summer we've got enough daylight to go around. If we wanted to save some, fall and winter seem like the times to do it.

Furthermore, daylight savings makes it nearly impossible to dress weather-appropriate in the morning. Too cold to wear skirts/shortsleeves in the morning, too hot to wear pants/longsleeves at night. You're forced to bulk up as if winter in a mish-mash of funny-matched layers just to walk out the damn door.

Ok. I'm done with that soap box. Hopefully tomorrow we will return to regularly scheduled programming.